{No small stir} (	arachos ouk oligos). Same phrase in
 12:18  and nowhere else in the N.T. Litotes. {Concerning the
Way} (peri t(8873) hodou). See this phrase for Christianity in
 9:2  19:9  24:22  which see, like the "Jesus Way" of the
Indians. There had already been opposition and "stir" before this
stage (cf.  19:11-20 ). The fight with wild beasts in  1Co 15:32 
(whatever it was) was before that Epistle was written and so
before this new uproar. Paul as a Roman citizen could not be
thrown to wild beasts, but he so pictured the violent opponents
of Christ in Ephesus.